<div dir="ltr"><div>I used to administer an old SysV 3.2 box... it's very painful.</div><div><br></div>The old original tar (not GNU tar) doesn't support compression, but you can do the same with piping... i.e.<div>tar cf - /target_dir | gzip > /tmp/target.tar.gz (if it's old enough, then filenames are limited to 14 characters as well.)</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think original tar supported the --exclude-dir= command... pretty much all arguments that start with -- won't be supported. There might be an equivalent argument... man is your friend.</div><div><br></div><div>gzip may not exist, but compress is and older command that probably will.. uses the .Z extension.</div><div><br></div><div>And Eric is right... $(..) is a construct that isn't in the original bourne shell (bash == Bourne Again SHell). Backticks will work.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Mitch</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Omar Eljumaily <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:omar@omnicode.com" target="_blank">omar@omnicode.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On the subject of rsync backups, be careful that you keep incremental file changes and deletions for a significant period of time. A simple mirror of files can get overwritten by malware, especially ransomware. You need to archive before modifying or deleting files.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 10/27/2015 9:06 AM, <a href="mailto:gandalf@sonic.net" target="_blank">gandalf@sonic.net</a> wrote:<br>
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I would prefer not to and again, the problem looks to be solved. WinSCP can be scripted to do backups. I have installed Cygwin or rather the rsync version of it to servers to add rsync capabilities.<br>
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Currently I made a tar script that backs up all the important directories and files. The really large directories are just copied en masse to the Windows server.<br>
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On 2015-10-26 20:27, Lincoln Peters wrote:<br>
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:26 PM <<a href="mailto:gandalf@sonic.net" target="_blank">gandalf@sonic.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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I'm sshing from a IBM x3550-M2 Windows Standard Server so no, that<br>
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Could you install Cygwin on the Windows server?<br>
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